Visual Studio 2008 – Customizing your IDE Webcast

In today’s webcast we looked at how to customize Visual Studio to meet your working style. To make it easier to find things I compiled a list of links and locations we talked about.

Install Locations:

• Install dir = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0
• User stuff = ..\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008
• Templates = ..\Common7\IDE
  - C#, VB, C++, Test, etc depending on what’s installed
• Visualizers = ..\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers
  User install = ..\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Visualizers

Here’s some links:

• MSDN: How to Create Item Templates
• MSDN: How to Create Item Templates for Specific Project Types
• Karen Liu’s TechEd talk: C# Tips and Tricks
• Dustin Campbell’s PDC talk
• Keybinding poster
• Source code outline power tool
• Get Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Download CodeRush Xpress!